EEG Reveals Abnormal Brain Waves in Essential Tremor Patients (IMAGE)

Columbia University Irving Medical Center

EEG Reveals Abnormal Brain Waves in Essential Tremor Patients

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A new study suggests that patients with essential tremor have unusual brain waves in the cerebellum that cause the tremors (the same brain waves in mice produce tremor). The left image show a cerebellar electroencephalogram (EEG) in a control subject; the right image shows additional brain waves in a patient. Highest intensity is colored in red, lowest intensity in blue.

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Columbia University Irving Medical Center (Kuo lab)

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